Mastering the Art of Drop Shadows in Figma with Gigantic's Favorite Plugins
Benjamin Young
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Need to set up some silky smooth drop shadows in Figma? 🥷 Here are three plugins that we love for achieving elegant drop shadows in seconds:
👉 Shadowkit - A simple but mighty plugin offering three preset elevations to give you consistent, minimalist, hierarchical shadows. Each preset is limited to two CSS "box-shadow" properties which will keep your developers happy.
👉 SmoothShadow - A deeply customizable shadow generator that makes it easy to build remarkably smooth layered shadows. This one gives an impressive level of control, allowing you to easily adjust properties like the number of layers, alpha, offset, blur, and easing curves.
👉 Beautiful Shadows - A nice balance between simplicity and nuance, this plugin allows you to visually define shadows using a pseudo-light-source element to mimic how shadows cast in the real world — a perfect pick for your skeuomorphic needs.
Using any of these plugins will ensure your shadow-building workflow in Figma is fast and fruitful 🍓🫐 What plugins are essential to your process? #FigmaFriday
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Working with Gigantic was inspiring and impactful. Given the nature and timeline of this project, our company needed a collaborative and nimble partner—not just one who lists those qualities as bullet points in a capabilities presentation, but a partner who actually exhibits them day in and day out. Gigantic worked with our team to create and implement design decisions in real-time and, like any true partner, asked great questions and challenged us which has only benefited our company as a whole.
Working with Gigantic was inspiring and impactful. Given the nature and timeline of this project, our company needed a collaborative and nimble partner—not just one who lists those qualities as bullet points in a capabilities presentation, but a partner who actually exhibits them day in and day out. Gigantic worked with our team to create and implement design decisions in real-time and, like any true partner, asked great questions and challenged us which has only benefited our company as a whole.
